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Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

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.me is cooler, but... That all the cool 2-letter TLDs are designated as country codes was an extraordinary mistake that will have unpredictable and devastating consequences long into the future.

The only mistake was not opening the root namespace altogether. It’s just a money grab.

The only mistake was not putting all US domains under .us, now the US has an an exorbitant privilege to print and enforce rules on new TLDs.

Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

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ICANN and its consequences have been a disaster for the internet namespace.

I am disappointed that icannt.org is taken and is not an alternative root.

Edit: I've been rate limited because of this comment, apparently. Account burned - will make a new one. Dang says below it's because of flagged comments but I don't see many flagged comments in my history.

Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

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Hold up...why isn't .self listed here: https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db Is this just an idea at this point, or some kind of "you have to use our DNS to resolve .self domains" scheme - ?

This is an idea at this point, the next round of gTLD applications is currently open and we are in the process of applying and we are trying to garner support!

Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

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Hold up...why isn't .self listed here: https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db Is this just an idea at this point, or some kind of "you have to use our DNS to resolve .self domains" scheme - ?

This is an idea at this point, the next round of gTLD applications is currently open and we are in the process of applying and we are trying to garner support!

Could do something like .brave and just sidestep ICANN?

Re: .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

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Hold up...why isn't .self listed here: https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db Is this just an idea at this point, or some kind of "you have to use our DNS to resolve .self domains" scheme - ?

This is an idea at this point, the next round of gTLD applications is currently open and we are in the process of applying and we are trying to garner support!

TIL https://newgtldprogram.icann.org/en/application-rounds/round...
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